Study for "Still Life with Cash Box"
1976
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View on museum website →Medium
brush and inks, graphite, and colored pencil on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 11.11 × 8.57 cm (4 3/8 × 3 3/8 in.) sheet: 25.24 × 17.46 cm (9 15/16 × 6 7/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of William H. G. FitzGerald, Desmond FitzGerald, and B. Francis Saul II)
Accession Number
2015.19.2743
About the Artist
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923, in New York City to Milton Lichtenstein, a real estate broker, and Beatrice Werner Lichtenstein, a homemaker with musical training, in an upper-middle-class German-Jewish family. Growing up on the Upper West Side, he displayed early artistic talent, sketching jazz musicians and visiting museums like the Museum of Modern Art. In 1939, he studied painti...